. Review of reviews and world's work. governments of Presi-dent Kriiger and the Empress Dow^ager had beenled by prejudice, passion, and evil counsel intothe ruinous paths of war, so it never could besaid for certainty of any country that ignorance,vehemence, and popular clamor might not someday come into control of the government, andthus endanger the peace of neighboring significance of these remarks of the primeminister of England is obvious. He had refer-ence to the growing hatred of England that ismanifested by the Nationalist movement in France—a popular movement against the a
. Review of reviews and world's work. governments of Presi-dent Kriiger and the Empress Dow^ager had beenled by prejudice, passion, and evil counsel intothe ruinous paths of war, so it never could besaid for certainty of any country that ignorance,vehemence, and popular clamor might not someday come into control of the government, andthus endanger the peace of neighboring significance of these remarks of the primeminister of England is obvious. He had refer-ence to the growing hatred of England that ismanifested by the Nationalist movement in France—a popular movement against the attitude ofPresident Ijoubet and of Premier Waldeck-Rous-seaus ministry that might, very conceivably, leadFrance either into domestic convulsions or intoforeign war. Mr. Chamberlain seems to likesailing on a khaki sea in a military hat, but theOld Premier likes war less than ever. So LordSalisbury led up to the following conclusion : The moral of this is, that we must remain on ourguard, however burdensome and painful it may be. We. Mr. C.:LoHD S.; ON A KMAKl SKA. Isnt this jolly? Hm—rm a little too old for this sort of thing. From }Vrs(minster OazctU, 648 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. must some time come to consider the defenses of thecountry, scrutinize them carefully, and make as cer-tain as any human calculations can that we shall notbe exposed to the danger of a sudden interruption ofthe peace on which all our prosperity depends. No in-ternal reforms or improvements are of the slightestvalue unless security from external interference is ob-tained. These are not idle words of needless apprehen-sion ; they express the clear truth, to which it iswell that Lord Salisbury has awakened. Surelythere ought not, for any reason that sensiblemen could possibly assign, to be even so muchas the talk of a war between France and Eng-land. It would be almost as appalling a crimeagainst humanity as war between England andthe United States. The best men of France,and the men no
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